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After leading the Dream Team to Olympic Gold and taking the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship, Michael Jordan walked away from the game of basketball. Jolted by the tragic loss of his father, Jordan decided to pursue a lifelong ambition and play baseball. His brief career in the minor leagues was subject to intense media scrutiny and ridicule, but those who knew him best understood his need to honor his father by fulfilling...
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From 1981 to 1983, the Dunbar High School boys' basketball team in Baltimore was arguably the best high school basketball team that ever played. Over two seasons, they went 59-0, and eleven players on their rosters went off to Division I programs. Four would become future NBA players: David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Tyrone 'Muggsy' Bogues and Reggie Lewis, three of them making history by being selected together in the first round of the 1987 draft....
4) Bad boys
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30 for 30 volume no. 18
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"Few teams in professional sports history elicit such a wide range of emotions as the Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s and early '90s. The team had some of the best--and most complex--players in NBA history: Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, Joe Dumars, Dennis Rodman, John Salley; and the mixture of grit, professionalism and style possessed by coach Chuck Daly. Sandwiched between the Lakers' and Celtics' dominance of the 1980s and the Bulls'...
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30 for 30 volume no. 25
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Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac grew up sharing the common bond of basketball. Close friends as well as teammates, they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights and both eventually fulfilled their dreams of NBA stardom. But when war broke out between Petrovic's Croatia and Divac's Serbia, long buried ethnic tensions surfaced. These two men, once brothers, were now on opposite sides of a deadly civil war.
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In 1992, a young filmmaker named Mike Tollin (Varsity Blues, Coach Carter, Radio) chronicled one season in the lives of the Morningside High basketball team in Inglewood, California. They were the defending state champions, and all five starters were returning for their senior year. They seemed a shoo-in to win a second straight state title, and the five guys all thought they were on a path to become 'the next Jordan.' Now, twenty-five years later,...
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30 for 30 volume no. 9-10
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Guru of go: "In the 1989-90 season, rising college basketball star Hank Gathers collapsed during a game and was diagnosed with an abnormal heartbeat. Determined to play, he returned three games later, but in less than three months, he tragically died on the court."--Container.
No crossover: the trial of Allen Iverson: "On Valentine's Day 1993, 17-year old Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Virginia when an argument erupted into a brawl, pitting...
8) Without Bias
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30 for 30 volume no. 5
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"More than two decades after his tragic cocaine overdose, the late Len Bias still leaves more questions than answers. When Bias dropped dead two days after the 1986 NBA Draft, he forever altered our perception of casual drug use and became the tipping point of America's drug crisis in the mid-80's ... In the most ambitious, comprehensive and uncompromising account of Bias' life and death ever captured on film, up-and-coming director Kirk Fraser utilizes...
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30 for 30 volume no. 10
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"On Valentine's Day 1993, 17-year-old high school basketball and football star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Virginia when an argument erupted into a brawl, pitting Iverson's African-American friends against a group of white patrons. The fallout from the fight and the subsequent trial landed Iverson a lengthy prison sentence and sharply divided the city along racial lines."--Container.
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30 for 30 volume season 3, no. 8
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A documentary film on the 1990s Orlando Magic NBA team and its star players, Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway, told via archive footage as well as filmed interviews with O'Neal, Hardaway, other teammates and supporting players.
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I hate Christian Laettner: "Go beyond the polarizing persona and uncover the complete story behind the lightning rod of college basketball. Featuring extensive access to Christian Laettner and previously unseen footage, this film is a 'gloves-off' examination of the man who has been seen by many as the 'Blue Devil Himself'"--Container.
Sole man: "Sonny Vaccaro is one of the sports world's most charismatic, polarizing and influential figures. Now...
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30 for 30 volume no. 24-25
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Four days in October: "When the night of October 16, 2004 came to a merciful end, the Curse of the Bambino was alive and well as the New York Yankees extended their ALCS lead to three games to none over the Boston Red Sox. But the cold October winds of change began to blow and over four consecutive days and nights, this determined Red Sox team miraculously won four straight games to overcome the inevitability of their destiny".--Container.
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Bad boys: "Few teams in professional sports history elicit such a wide range of emotions as the Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s and early '90s. For anyone who experienced the Bad Boys in action, they carved out their own identity, both in the league and in American popular culture."--Container.
Slaying the badger: "Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who is now the first and only American to win the Tour de France. In this engrossing...
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30 for 30 volume no. 4-6
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Muhammad & Larry: "In October of 1980, Muhammad Ali came out of retirement to become world heavyweight champion for an unprecedented fourth time against his former sparring partner, Larry Holmes. For the first time, here is the compelling never-before-seen footage from the build-up to the title fight."--Container.
Without Bias: "When rising superstar Len Bias dropped dead two days after being selected as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft,...
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There's no place like home: "When University of Kansas superfan Josh Swade discovers Dr. James Naismith's original rules of basketball will be auctioned on December 10, 2010, he embarks upon an ambitious goal: to raise more than $1 million in three weeks. Follow his quest to bring the rules 'back home' to the University of Kansas"--Container.
Benji: "In 1984, 17-year-old Benjamin "Benji" Wilson, Jr. was the first high school player in Chicago's history...
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30 for 30 volume no. 18-20
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Jordan rides the bus: "After leading the Dream Team to Olympic Gold and taking the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship, Michael Jordan walked away from the game of basketball. Ron Shelton shares this surprisingly touching story about the motivations that drove the world's most famous athlete to play a new sport in the relative obscurity of Birmingham, Alabama."--Container.
Little big men: " When Kirkland, Washington's Little...
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This is what they want: "Directors Brian Koppelman and David Levien take a colorful look at the re-invention of tennis in the first decade of the Open era through the lens of Jimmy Connors' career and his famous 1991 U. S. Open run"--Container.
Bernie and Ernie: "When Bernard King arrived at Knoxville, he was only the third African-American ever to play for the Vols' varsity team. By the time he left he was a legend. Along with talented teammate...
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